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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (32462)6/29/2010 12:00:19 AM
From: Hope Praytochange  Read Replies (1) of 103300
 
Top Parks Managers Get 20 Percent Pay Raises and $400,000 In Back Pay Too
King County has been slashing budgets everywhere. Departments are under a hiring freeze and to save money, they've been giving away parks and pools to local cities. Now, the King County Parks Department is being forced to make more emergency cuts this month after losing a battle with the employees union over pay scale increases for 12 top level managers. If he's lucky, King County Parks mower Jordan Bennett might make $18,000 this year with overtime. His chances of getting a raise anytime soon are virtually nothing. Internal county documents show the group asked King County Human Resources to change their job titles, which in turn bumps pay. HR said no twice. Mediation didn't help them either. However, the fourth try - an appeal to the King County Personnel Board - was victorious. The Service Employees International Union helped push the case along. We have to come up with a solution that pays people what they are owed SEIU 925 President, Kim Cook said. King County Parks Director, Kevin Brown, fought to keep the supervisors from getting reclassified. He now has to cut somewhere in the neighborhood of a half million dollars from his budget to off-set the wage increases and back pay. That's money that could have hired at least 31 workers like Jordan Bennett. There is a real chance more parks will be closed to cover this forced pay raise. SEIU 925 president Kim Cook says they don't have blinders on, the union understands concessions, due to this action are inevitable.
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